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Groupings put together because the pieces belong together — one campaign, one exposition, one kind of object.
Tickets to the White City
The World's Columbian Exposition opened on the Chicago lakefront on 1 May 1893 and closed on 30 October. These are the tickets people carried through its gates: two of the named days the fair printed separately, a season ticket for the children's pay gates, and the plain undated admission sold at the turnstile. Chicago Day, 9 October, drew 713,646 paid admissions and remains the reason the eagle on those tickets is rising out of a fire.
6 pieces
The Campaign of 1888
Cleveland against Harrison, fought on the tariff and decided in the electoral college by a candidate who lost the popular vote. It was also the high-water mark of the campaign lapel stud: enameled flags, horseshoes, log cabins and clover leaves, made cheaply enough to hand out and well enough to survive.
6 pieces